[ad_1] Alex Shorthose paid himself almost £400,000 across two companies while paying HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) just £5,368 Both companies were shut down in 2024 after running up combined debts of more than £300,000 in unpaid VAT and PAYE Shorthose has been banned as a company director until April 2032 following investigations by the...Read More
[ad_1] Holman Jenkins. [Photo: Jenkins’ LinkedIn page] Anthropic reported to government and major private institutions that its AI model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of security vulnerabilities in widely used software. The New York Times described it as an “AI-driven cyber threat”, but Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr (홀먼 W. 젠킨스 주니어) took...Read More
[ad_1] Open-source scheduling platform Cal.com announced on Tuesday (April 15) that it is moving its commercial codebase to closed source, citing AI-driven security risks. The company simultaneously launched Cal.diy, a stripped-down open-source version under the MIT license for hobbyists and developers. “Open source code is basically like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault,”...Read More
[ad_1] The new cybersecurity recruitment expansion comes after the loss of thousands of federal tech experts under the Trump administration’s workforce reductions. Drew Friedman@dfriedmanWFED April 15, 2026 5:52 pm 3 min read The Trump administration is widening its lens for recruiting technologists to work across federal agencies, at least temporarily. The Office of Personnel Management...Read More
[ad_1] An inquiry into Queensland’s child safety system has heard the former minister responsible was made aware of its resource issues, as well as the “significant increase” in children entering residential care. It comes as the state government today announced a new multi-million-dollar pilot program with the goal of moving more children into family homes...Read More
[ad_1] Fort Worth police say 10 men were arrested during a three-day operation targeting people accused of attempting to prey on children online. The arrests happened between April 1 and April 3 as part of what officials are calling “operation spring cleaning.” Police said the investigation involved nonstop work and coordination with local and federal...Read More
[ad_1] Conservative MP Wendy Morton has also called for more scrutiny of the US tech company’s “ability to protect data”. The US-headquartered analytics company won a £300m contract with NHS England for its Foundry “federated data platform” (FDP) at the end of 2023, which will be up for renewal at the start of next year....Read More
[ad_1] Seniors’ financial literacy is more important now than ever before as scams against older Americans become ever more sophisticated, experts testified Wednesday at a hearing before the Senate Special Committee on Aging. “In 2024, fraud and scam cost older Americans nearly $5 billion. These criminals are not amateurs,” Committee Chairman Sen.Rick Scott (R-FL) said....Read More
[ad_1] Laid-back singer and Special Sauce bandleader G. Love was decidedly not feeling a “Sunday Vibe” this weekend after losing (what he claimed to be) his life savings to a crypto wallet app scam. In an X post, the musician, who’s been acquiring bitcoin since 2017, allegedly lost his crypto while transferring it to a...Read More
[ad_1] Are major social media platforms safe for teens? The answer to that question could have massive ramifications. A recent court decision overrode previous precedents by holding social platforms liable for the mental and emotional harms that are informed by addictive feeds. Meanwhile, in regions like the European Union, the mental health of teenagers is...Read More